Derby day at RAMS Park
Galatasaray–Fenerbahçe. Süper Lig week 9. RAMS Park, kick-off 19:30 CET on Monday.
Your team is the last side to win there. Galatasaray have gone 39 home matches without defeat, and Fenerbahçe are the club that broke that ground last (3).
You sit third on 16 points from 8 games, with a +16 goal difference. Form reads W W L W D. The 6–0 defeat at Aston Villa on October 14 is the blemish in that run.
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Hürriyet ran both a tactical preview and the likely lineups ahead of the match (2) (3).
Karacan: mind games and psychological warfare
Ufuk Kaan Karacan framed the whole thing as a battle before a ball is kicked. His Hürriyet column on the derby is built around mind games and psychological warfare (2).
He called it one of the biggest matches in the title race (2). On a Monday night with both clubs near the top, he is not wrong about the stakes.
A three-month absence in the squad
One Fenerbahçe player has had surgery on a cartilage lesion in his left knee and will be out for three months (1).
The reaction in the Turkish press has been brutal. One outlet ran the line that his football life is over (1).
Wirtz hurt before Liverpool come to Istanbul
Liverpool's Florian Wirtz went off injured against Brighton, and Liverpool visit Fenerbahçe in the Champions League on November 4 (10).
Wirtz is German, and the report lands as another injury in Liverpool's squad before the trip (10).
Yıldırım: "I'm gone after May"
Aziz Yıldırım spoke at the High Divan meeting on Saturday, October 24, and did not soften anything. The president warned about spending the club cannot sustain (11).
His line on his own future: "Mayıs'tan sonra yokum", which means I am gone after May (11).
Szymanski struggling at Rennes, Napoli watching
Sebastian Szymanski left Fenerbahçe for Rennes this summer for €10m and it has not gone well (5).
Napoli are monitoring him and Rennes value him at €15m (5). Franck Haise is the Rennes coach in the report from Ekrem Konur (5).
What comes next
Goztepe at home on Saturday, October 31 at 17:00 CET (Süper Lig). Then Liverpool at home on Wednesday, November 4 at 18:45 CET in the Champions League. Then Çorum FK away on Sunday, November 8 at 14:00 CET.
